Lego style buildings

[skouras]

ANYBODY HAVE THIS OR IS JUST ME
Brown lego style buildings over large areas

[RE77ACTION]

It's because you probably have building amount on low. The higher this setting the more Lego blocks turn into 'real' houses.

[skouras]

nope everything on very high

heres a screenshot
the screenshot is not from me but from another guy
http://steamcommunity.com/id/sheathu...24085731583432

[RE77ACTION]

Originally Posted by skouras

nope everything on very high

Have you tried to delete the files in cache. Maybe that will help because else I don't have clue why it doesn't work for you.

About the screenshot. This is what I would typical get when putting building amount on low.

[skouras]

this problem that i have is only appears over London
on the other cities i have no problem
but i notice that if i set the buildings amount from high to unlimited the problem is almost invisible but with a hit to fps
thanks RE77ACTION for your replies

[Blackdog_kt]

I think a lot has to do with texture loading. If you fly over a smaller city you can load everything at once, but flying over London with a lot of buildings your video RAM is not enough and the textures are loaded in batches.

For example, if i use maximum detail on my older Ati 4890 1Gb, i can clearly see that even inside the cockpit sometimes the textures remain low-resolution and don't load immediately. That's because i have an older GPU with less video RAM and i also have only 3Gb of RAM, so the sim loads whatever it can first and then loads the rest in "steps".

[skouras]

so to understand i'm the only one or not....
i've got a GTX 580 with 7 giga of ram
and it seems that is not enough

[RE77ACTION]

Originally Posted by skouras

so to understand i'm the only one or not....
i've got a GTX 580 with 7 giga of ram
and it seems that is not enough

How much VRAM do you have on your card and in what resolution do you run it? Some say that 1,5GB VRAM for 1920x1200 (or 1080) just isn't enough. I've read that VRAM usage on that resolution wants to go up to about 1,7GB. ...But I didn't test it myself and its only what I read. Normally you would assume that a 580GTX would be more than enough for the job. It's just a very powerful card for today's standards.

I myself run building amount on high instead of unlimited because it makes a noticeable difference in performance. The visuals are for me acceptable this way. Only in London I see Lego blocks far away. Above Dover (as in your screenshot) I don't get any Lego blocks when building amount is on high.

[Querer]

I bring this one up, as I realized just yesterday that although I changed my building setting to unlimited, some of the buildings suddenly just disappear?! Flying low level back home I realized several times that the buildings just in front of my plane vanish and only the flat building "photo" remains. I am 100% sure that this problem was not there some days ago and I do absolutely not know why this suddenly starts to bother me. Maybe I should change back to building amount "high"? Anyone else experienced vanishing buildings?

[ATAG_Doc]

Buildings is good. Must be your level of detail. Probably low?